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Helloooooo Charlie51st!

Here are two images.  The first is egg production in a commercial situation .... mass production.

This second image and one I much prefer, because a happy chicken makes happy eggs .....

FREE RANGE...

The eggs do taste better and the chickens are much happier .... (Check out their chicken smiles!)

Here is an example... these chickens are having a hen party...

 

 

FREE THE CHICKENS!!!

Have yourself a glorious one!

Sincerely, Fishlet

12 years ago. Rating: 9
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This little chicken can't do it all on her own you knowEven though she's one cool chick.

12 years ago. Rating: 8
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Read this...http://tbnranch.com/2011/11/21/industrial-egg-production-the-facts/

12 years ago. Rating: 7
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I raise chickens for eggs. 20 hens have produced 200 eggs per month over three years. They consume 100 pounds of corn scratch mix and 50 pounds of egg maker pellets every month. They roam and forage over ? acre and my neighbors and I give the chickens all of our table scraps of bread and vegetables. Over this time 12 have died due to dogs and birds of prey (eagles, osprey and red tail hawks). I allow these chickens to breed, usually just one hen and this has maintained the numbers of birds in the flock and occasionally I will bring in another breed to mix with the variety .Roosters reach maturity and being competitive, are soon removed to a home where their colorful varieties can freely range and keep the predator populations happy.

The chickens will be getting a new rooster in the spring to add to the mix and the old rooster will join the flock (about 100 birds) at the chicken retirement ranch to live out their happy lives.

The eggs my chickens produce are usually large depending on the age of the birds. Small eggs by younger birds. Because their diet is richly varied, their eggs have thick shells and yokes that are orange in color and when broken into a skillet, the whites will form a 3.5 inch frying egg with a yoke that stands ¾ inch high. The thickness of the yoke is ideal for hollandaise sauce and soft boiled eggs. When I compare my eggs with those I have seen in stores, mine are always superior.  But I am not interested in expanding what I do. Those who buy my eggs often trade produce, occasionally $2.oo a dozen and sometimes some odd jobs like pruning trees or raking leaves. One of my neighbors also has chickens and I am sometime asked for a few chicks in the spring.

    

12 years ago. Rating: 7
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Eggs are the same reproductive cell of the hen, regardless of whether she is raised in your back yard, or on a commercial confinement system.  They feed the hens scientifically, with most likely the same feeds as you buy at the feed store. 

12 years ago. Rating: 6
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